F-35 equipped for air superiority? What kind of of superiority is that? Against the NK air force?
It should have been a dual engine plane from the start. Its not reliable enough for the navy, and the problem is its too slow and lacks agility mostly due to the single engine and insufficient thrust/weight ratio to establish air superiority against current generation threats.
Also the stealth aspect is completely worthless for the navy since the wealther out in the sea will degrade the radar absorbing paint and maintaining the coat in these conditions would reduce combat hours on the plane, so you need more planes just to maintain the same combat readiness level.
The other problem is the radar absorbing material is just a crutch against internally guided radar tracking missiles. Any long wavelength radar can track these planes like theres no stealth at all, and if the enemy air force can "fire and forget" long range AtA missiles and let ground or AWACS radars guide the missiles this stealth is bypassed altogether. In short range the turn speed, acceleration, and overall agility of this plane is just too inferior to lighter single engine and larger dual engine jets, and they can use IR missiles in short-medium range which nullifies the short-wave radar stealthiness of the plane.
I say bring back the F-22.